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penthouse

[pent-hous] / ˈpɛntˌhaʊs /
NOUN
aerie
Synonyms
STRONG






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That’s in addition to $80 million worth of units in the building, including a three-story penthouse and two apartments on the level right below it.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

They met at his penthouse in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood, at a private back room in a bar in North Beach and at the W Hotel in Los Angeles, she writes.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Cele admitted to MPs that he had known Matlala for a couple of months and had stayed at his rented penthouse in Pretoria on two occasions but denied receiving money from Matlala.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

As his star rose, he attracted amused attention with his Manhattan penthouse and Palm Beach compound, both outfitted to the gills in golden decor.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

Then she’d been adopted by a couple who lived in a penthouse on New York’s Upper East Side.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

Later, Detroit planned to build luxury condos and penthouses on the land, but those projects largely collapsed with the onset of the 2007-09 recession.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

It now offers 53 loft-style homes and eight penthouses.

From MarketWatch Apr. 30, 2026

The most expensive penthouses in the Bugatti Residences By Binghatti building will include large, private lifts for the owner's cars, so they can park them inside their apartments.

From BBC Jan. 11, 2026

Attas has seen it all, from opulent penthouses to homes she describes in her new memoir, “Pets and the City,” as “so squalid I feared for my life just breathing in the air.”

From New York Times Jun. 19, 2024

Outside stairs seem to have been common, and sometimes penthouses on pillars or cellar steps further broke the monotony of the street, though frequent enactments strove to regulate these in the public interest.

From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton




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